When: 25-28 September
Where: Rautenbach Hall, University of Pretoria, Main Campus, Lynwood road.
Hours: 9:00-16:00
Contact: Elfriede Dreyer on 083 271 2342

Gracing many corporate and private collections both locally and abroad, French born Eric Duplan’s work is perhaps most easily described as topographical landscapes that almost archaeologically present a bird’s eye view of the landscape. He paints in oil and mixes fine details with abstract architectural renderings reminiscent of a mapping of the city.

Using an individualistic symbolic language that in abstract way relates to journey, discovery and road, he seems to be probing and stripping the layers of the city. Technological, social and engineered systems of thinking are deconstructed into grids that seemingly hold our fragile world together. In Duplan's work, human form and nature become transmuted into a personalised language of compressed signs, comprehensible only to those caught up in the posthuman matrix.